Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science), adhering to the concept of high standards of publishing ethics, effectively standardizes the publishing behavior, improves the self-discipline of scientific research, prevents academic misconduct, gives full play to the role of scientific journals in the certification of scientific research results, and contributes to the construction of world-class scientific journals. We refer to the China Association for Science and Technology the sci-tech periodical publishing ethics (COPE), publishing ethics committee’s official website (http://www.publicationethics.org/) and the European association for science and edit (EASE) ethical standards, making publishing ethics.
1. Author’s Responsibilities
　　(1) Authors must ensure that the manuscript is an authentic work, free from any academic misconduct such as plagiarism, fabrication of data, multiple submission or duplicate publication, and does not contain confidential information.
　　(2) The content of the submission is scientific, concise and accurate;
　　(3) The submission does not involve state secrets and infringement issues related to intellectual property rights;
　　(4) Authors must ensure that the submission must not be under consideration elsewhere or previously published in any journal/media in any language;
　　(5) Authors ensure that the submission must not be ghostwritten, submitted, or revised by third parties;
　　(6) The cited literatures are all related to the submission, and the cited sources are clearly indicated, and the list is made in the way of reference description;
　　(7) When signing a paper, all authors should have made contributions to the research of this paper. False signing is not allowed. Once accepted, no changes to authorship (including additions, deletions, or reordering of authors) are permitted.
　　(8) The funding information related to the research shall be stated in the manuscript without resorting to fraud;
　　(9) The submission is submitted to the website of Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science). Once accepted, digital reproduction right, distribution right, compilation right and information network transmission right of the paper will be transferred to the editorial department of Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering science).
2. Reviewer’s Responsibilities
　　(1) The reviewer must ensure a fair evaluation of the content of the paper. The reviewer needs to check the innovation, science and practicality of the paper; Provide a fair evaluation of whether the research methodology is appropriate, whether the research method is appropriate, whether the research design is reasonable, whether the results and conclusions are accurate, and whether there are omissions. Put forward detailed suggestions on the problems existing in the article;
　　(2) The reviewer shall ensure that the author has identified all sources of the data used in the study and shall immediately inform the editor of any plagiarism or multiple submissions；
　　(3) The reviewer should indicate any published works of relevant literature that have not been cited；
　　(4) The reviewer shall keep the review confidential and shall not circulate, discuss, use or publish the data, views or conclusions of the manuscript;
　　 (5) All review comments and information shall be kept confidential and shall not be used for personal purposes；
　　 (6) Reviewers should recuse themselves from manuscripts where conflicts of interest exist.
3. Editor’s Responsibilities
　 (1) The editor shall be responsible for all the editorial aspects of the journal, including continuously promoting the development of the journal and ensuring that the editor’s manuscripts are published with high quality and on time.
　　(2) The editor may accept, reject or require the revision of the manuscript according to the review comments of the reviewers and the review report of the editorial board.;
　　(3) The editor shall ensure that the evaluation of the paper is fair and reasonable. Editors select manuscripts fairly select manuscripts based on their originality, importance, clarity, and compatibility with the purpose and scope of the journal;
　　(4) The Editor shall ensure that the identities of reviewers and other relevant personnel in the editorial board are protected during the blind review process, and that no information regarding the submission of papers is disclosed to others;
　　(5) The editor shall ensure that every article accepted by the Journal is reviewed for intellectual content, regardless of the identity, gender, race, religion and nationality of the author, etc;
　　(6) The editor shall ensure that all commercial needs and exchange of interests which are detrimental to academic ethics are avoided;
　　(7) All manuscripts are searched by China Knowledge Network Academic Misconduct Literature Detection System for Scientific and Technical Journals, and the similarity index is lower than 10%, and higher than 10% is returned for modification or withdrawal.
4. Sponsor or Publisher Responsibilities
　　(1) Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science) is sponsored and published by Zhengzhou University. The requirements of sponsor for the journal are obeying the academic publishing ethical standards, publishing high quality and up-to-standard manuscripts and improving communication in the engineering science field.
　　(2) The publishing organization can not intervene in the decision-making power of editors.
5. Academic Misconduct Policy
　　To prevent academic misconduct, the journal editorial department uses the "Scientific Journal Academic Misconduct Document Inspection System" (AMLC) developed by CNKI to detect research papers. The journal editorial committee will discuss and determine whether there is an academic misconduct and what is the punishment. Should forgery of data, multiple submission or plagiarism be found, the manuscript will be rejected immediately and the journal will not accept submission from the authors involved in two years. An announcement shall be published and the institutes of the authors shall be notified. All consequences shall be borne by authors. For other types of academic misconduct, such as improper attribution and failure to disclose conflicts of interest, once verified, the case will be handled according to national standards and international guidelines, depending on the specific circumstances.
6. Advertising Statement
　　The journal does not publish commercial advertisements. All articles, as well as our official website and other platforms, are free from advertising. The review and acceptance decisions for manuscripts are not influenced by any commercial factors.